More questions than answers:
https://nymagcom/ntelligencer/219/07/how-did-jeffrey-epstein-make-his-fortune.html
Steven Hoffenberg, who was found dead in 2023 under mysterious circumstances and was Epstein’s mentor at Towers Financial, believed that he was an intelligence asset. Jean-Luc Brunel, French “modeling” agent and close associate of Epstein, was found dead by suicide in a Paris jail while awaiting prosecution on sex trafficking charges.